Thomas Klitgaard

Adjunct Professor Thomas Klitgaard, an attorney at
Dillingham & Murphy, LLP, San Francisco, focuses his practice on East
Asian commercial and intellectual property issues. He has written and lectured
extensively on legal and business matters in China, Japan, and other countries
in East Asia. He has served as senior vice president and general counsel of two
major companies doing business in East Asia, Tandem Computers and Sega of
America, Inc., and was a litigation associate and later a partner for many
years at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco. He is also an
international arbitrator and mediator and serves on the international
arbitration panel of the American Arbitration Association’s International
Center for Dispute Resolution in New York City. He is a member of the College
of Commercial Arbitrators. Mr. Klitgaard was the chair for many years of a
business manager training program jointly run by the Shanghai Municipal
Government, China’s State Owned Assets Supervision and Administration
Commission, and the City of San Francisco. He received the Magnolia Silver
Award in 2011 from the Shanghai Municipal Government for “valuable support to
Shanghai’s development and outstanding contributions to [our] friendly
cooperation.” Early in his career, Klitgaard served as the law clerk for
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. In addition to teaching Asian Legal
Systems at USF for nine years, Klitgaard has been a guest professor at the
Shanghai Economic Management College and an associate and adjunct professor of
commercial and corporate law at the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt
Hall).